SuitabookProtecting a threatened wood
The children discover marked trees and connect worsening weather, flooding and land damage with threats to the wood and village.
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Andy Shepherd, illustrated by Ellie Snowdon - Author
A gentle magical adventure carries a serious environmental problem: the children must respond as trees are threatened, extreme weather worsens and their village floods. Friendship and changing viewpoints help drive the response.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA gentle magical adventure carries a serious environmental problem: the children must respond as trees are threatened, extreme weather worsens and their village floods. Friendship and changing viewpoints help drive the response.
The children discover marked trees and connect worsening weather, flooding and land damage with threats to the wood and village.
Iggy, Cal and Mae work together, while local groups disagree about the wood and the children try to change minds.
The story includes marked trees, deforestation, torrential rain, flooding, saturated fields, a possible landslide and a classmate’s negative behaviour towards Mae’s deafness.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: another book-specific source is still needed; some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
The Wood Where Stories Sing by Andy Shepherd, illustrated by Ellie Snowdon
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